Sentences with word «archaeologist»

It allows nothing to escape the eagle eyes of archaeologists at Historic England — the government - funded body that takes care of England's historic environment.

That, at least, is the claim of archaeologists who say they have evidence that Neanderthals were using feathers as ornaments 44,000 years ago.

This particular event has further corroborating evidence in the form of other written Assyrian records and the remains of the great Assyrian siege ramp and missiles found by archaeologists at the site of Lachish.

The oldest carbonized sample of the crop found by archaeologists in the Pacific dates to about 1000 C.E. — nearly 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.

Populations that preceded H. sapiens likely reached India and developed regional versions of Middle Paleolithic tools over several hundred thousand years, says archaeologist Michael Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

It can even be useful for archaeologists who look at human migration routes, and are interested to see how the European environment developed over the last 20 000 years.»

Horn interrogated various «acquaintances» of the murder victim such as archaeologists from the museum who had been looking after Ötzi for years, or experts from forensic medicine, radiology and anthropology.

I worked with archaeologists at field schools in the summers and helped them survey sites in the fall.

With archaeologists finding nearly twenty dresses of the ancient Egyptian world, there is no record of the dress ever existing in reality.

The block on excavations has been the latest in a series of obstacles for archaeologists working in Egypt — the home of perhaps one - third of the world's antiquities, which reveal a vanished culture in unmatched detail (see «New research in an ancient land»).

Continuing erosion of the site threatens to destroy the archaeological remains which is why the Bradgate Park Trust has gained permission from Natural England, Historic England and Leicestershire County Council to allow a team of archaeologists from University of Leicester's Archaeological Services to carry out a full excavation of the site in order to record this nationally important heritage site.

A team of archaeologists working in the region of Tall el - Hammam in Jordan believe they have found the ancient city of Sodom.

These are the 800 year old remains of what archaeologists believe was a witch from the Middle Ages after seven nails were found driven through her jaw bone Free Sue's Witch Magic Makeover games for everybody!

So, for instance, when archaeologists discovered the house of a descendent of Muhammad, King Fahd had it bulldozed so that it could not become a pilgrimage destination.

In 1977, Washington State University archaeologists excavated a spear tip and mastodon rib bone (an extinct species related to elephants) near Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

The Woods Hole researchers worked on the project with Greek archaeologists led by Theotokis Theodoulou of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities.

So he looked for crows that have similar features to the New Caledonian crow — a straight bill and large, mobile eyes that allow it to manipulate tools, much as archaeologists use opposable thumbs as an evolutionary signature for tool use in early humans.

Rather than identifying the collapse as the result of a single factor, many archaeologists now believe that the decline of the Maya was a result of many complex factors and that the decline occurred at different times in different regions.

When Archaeologists unearth cities, and pottery, and cuneiform tablets, and cylinders, and papyrus, and palaces, we gain a wealth of knowledge that backs up Biblical accounts.

Signs of fire damage in the wall might give credence to Homer's epic tale of the fall of Troy, and indicate roughly when it happened, says Donald Easton, a British archaeologist who is part of an international team working at Troy.

When therefore we set out to study the events out of which it arose, and the part that its Founder played in them, we are not like archaeologists digging up the remains of a forgotten civilization, or palaeontologists reconstructing an extinct organism.

They explain what each building was used for and some have drawings of what archaeologists believe the buildings once looked like.

«The scale of the disaster there is profound,» said Chekmous Ali, a Syrian archaeologist now at the University of Strasbourg in France.

During this brief window, ideal sailing routes would have been created from the already populated south Austral Islands to Easter Island — exactly when many archaeologists think the island was colonised.

The late Dr. William Rathje was an American archaeologist who became a world - leading garbage expert.

Today archaeologists know the Olmecs had stopped using the stone by about 500 B.C.. Later cultures favored other shades of jade, and the blue - green version became known as Olmec blue.

He and many other archaeologists say it will take much stronger evidence to convince them that the bones were fractured by ancient people.

Some of the secrets of the Philistines, the nemesis of the ancient Israelites, are expected to be revealed as archaeologists study remains excavated from a cemetery at Ashkelon.

Spend a whole day climbing the pyramids, exploring the underground caches, and marveling at the friezes and stone art, some of which are being actively discovered by archaeologists on site.

Hired by an ambitious small - town pastor to find sacred relics in the Holy Land, a self - proclaimed Biblical archaeologist comes up short and his attempt to cover up his failure fuels a comic conspiracy from the filmmaking team behind Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.

But many young archaeologists don't understand this, because very few academic programs prepare students for that work by teaching preservation law and practice, says Ketz.

These include everything from temples to plazas and dwellings, and some have been instrumental in helping archaeologists uncover important information about history and past civilizations.

Such startling propositions - the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years - have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

The latest discovery will help archaeologists understand with more detail how more North American civilizations like the Heiltsuk Nation began.

Perhaps another mechanism or collection of sculptures waits to be freed, says Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist at Lund University in Sweden and co-director of the international project.

State Archaeologist John Doershuk said the company's plan is satisfactory, but Indigenous Environmental Network organizer Dallas Goldtooth says his group opposes the decision to allow construction to go forward.

Not only protecting sites of the Paracas, this is also the region where archaeologists discovered evidence of human occupation from 6500 BC.

She begins the game as a young archaeologist searching for a mysterious island of legend and takes quite a while to morph into a real action hero.

Dating back to the so - called «Dark Ages» - the Intermediate Bronze Age in the Southern Levant - the gigantic dolmen was uncovered by Israeli archaeologists from Tel Hai College, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The circular space, built of stones and adobe, was probably a social and religious gathering area, says German archaeologist Peter Fuchs, who led the dig's excavation team.

A team led by archaeologists Michael Shunkov and Anatoli Derevianko of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk found the finger bone in 2008 at Denisova Cave in Russia's Altai Mountains.

In December 2014, for example, the same month Welch's group found the coin hoard, another amateur archaeologist used Google Earth to locate a Bronze Age burial site in the eastern English county of Suffolk.

Chichén Itzá was a large city, which archaeologists think started gaining importance between 700 to 1,000 A.D.

-- An amateur archaeologist claims he's found ancient pyramids in Bosnia.

Thanks to the region's arid climate, several decorative textiles survived for thousands of years until archaeologists dug them up in the 1940s.

Michal Artzy, a coastal and underwater archaeologist at the University of Haifa in Israel, says that the team has a good case for having found these famous harbors.